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Ain’t no place quite like home, ain’t no skater quite like Eric Jensen. Sure, a lot of dudes wear bucket hats, bomb hills and do slappies, but we’ve got it on good authority that he’s been doin’ all that since way back in ’99. It’s cool to see this dude in his natural habitat doin’ …

Byron Essert has been a close homie of mine for a few years. I remember seeing him skating around some of my local hills when we were both a bit younger. To be honest, at first I thought he was kind of a kook—until we really got down to it and had a good sesh …

There’s not a much better feelin’ than skatin’ with a whole bunch of your bros. Having the adventure(s) documented by your buddy and his cinematographically inclined father is pretty rad, too! Shaye Thorup and his dad, Erik Thorup, rounded up a bunch of friends to make this edit on a hill mountain in Hawaii! We’re pretty stoked on …

Camilo Cespedes gave us the heads up on this edit via Facebook. It was posted to the Loaded Boards YouTube page yesterday, but in our post-Christmas food coma we must’ve overlooked it. Thanks for hooking it up, CC! It’s always rad to see the skatebros in their natural environment whatever/wherever/whenever it may be! Colombia looks …

Coming at us from Florida is Landyachtz Longboards Team Rider Stephen Vaughn with some real fast skateboarding mixed in with some techy-rad-moves. As it gets colder up and over in this general direction, our excitement builds for King of Kona (Jan 10-13) and this video has got us double-stoked! We enjoyed this and think you will, too.

Click the image to visit The Berrics and watch the video. #Hypebeasters get stoked! One of our favorite downhill skateboard wheel companies has gotten itself a shout-out on The Berrics. Known quite well around these parts for making some dope-ass urethane products and radical downhill rollyboards, Road Rider has been around since, like, way back (1973 to be specific) …

Paris Trucks dropped a new video clip featuring one of their sickest riders, Matt Kienzle, riding in the beautiful mountains of New Zealand. This edit is the radness and it’s got us stoked to explore some new territory! It contains some solid video work by lens wizards Gabriel Gwynne and Jacob Lambert and is worth a watch …

The Road Rider “Shred Mags” is a 73mm, slightly offset race wheel, with a 59mm contact patch, and featuring Road Rider’s exclusive high rebound 78a formula as well as a massive 40mm x 37mm Mag Core. The Testing: In order to test the Road Rider “Shred Mags” we hit some runs on a familiar Socal …

Blood Orange has some new colorways for their Knuckle gloves and a new edit to introduce them to the world! Who better to introduce them than Mr. Liam Morgan?! He’s actually not using the gloves enough to reeaaallly sell’m, but that one bail and the one time he cheats his way off that kicker demonstrates …

Mark Alexander van Zevenbergen dropped this link on our Facebook page and (1) we’re stoked on it and (2) we figured the rest of you would enjoy it. Both of these topics — skateboarding and the internet — are things we’re quite fond of and some good points are made on the relationship between the two. …

Features: The Sector 9 Downhill Division Lightning Slide Gloves are high-end leather gloves for aggressive downhill skateboarding. The Lightning Gloves feature integrated knuckle reinforcement, palm padding, reinforced rubber fingertips and the new DD Lightning Pucks. The Lightning Gloves also include a carrying bag for easier travels. The Testing: In order to test these gloves, we …

BRAD PARKER; OLLIE BROOOOO. GIF: Sethmarcus Bandybrown. Most skaters have never heard of Brad Parker. That’s super Lame! We want to change that shit because Brad is most definitely one of the gnarliest and rawest all-around skaters that we have ever met. His creativity and mash-it-all approach is an inspiration, a breath of freshness, and …

Magenta Skateboards is doing things right. They’re keeping it all in the skateboard family, producing their hard & soft goods in the countries which they reside, and producing some rad skateboarding edits for all types of riders to enjoy. This particular stack of clips features Leo Valls and Ben Gore on some of San Francisco’s classic terrain paying …

Alicia Fillback has just been announced as the newest member of the Blood Orange crew! We’re very stoked for this news and double-stoked on this edit! It’s got all the good stuff! Alicia is ripping, San Francisco, Jack Boston & Chubbs on the film/edit, and some lo-fi surf-garage-punk-noise rock soundtrack buzzing in the background. It’s the perfect …

“The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.” – Henry David Thoreau Are the thrills of man-made slopes just not doing it for you anymore? Take some notes from the Loaded Boards gang: Get your …

The Testing: In order to test Arbor Skateboards’ “Prodigy” downhill skateboard deck we gripped, and also ripped, down a Malibu favorite. Features: Arbor’s “Prodigy” is a 9-ply, 38” long, symmetrical DH/freeride board featuring drop, drop cups, flares, a subtle W, rocker and also two layers of fiberglass for added stiffness. Pros: The combination of this …

‘twould appear that the crew with California Bonzing Co. has been a bit busy of late. A week or two ago, they dropped an edit for new team member Yvonne Byers and this week, they’ve gone and done the same for Mr. Michael Carson! If you know Michael already, you know he boarderizes all types of terrain. If …

Slide jams are serious business these days. Billions upon billions of dollars and countless man-hours are invested in such events every single day across the entire globe. And 9 times out of 10, the winners of these events go on to become Mega Longboarding Super Stars with huge corporate contracts and baller mansions and other …

Striker and the Landyachtz gang are offering up a pretty rad promo. If you’ve got some extra cash lying around or are the gambling type or know someone who loves Landyachtz gear, you should consider grabbing one of their “Mystery Boxes”. They’re available in a few different price options and Striker is gonna tell you all about it …